by John Mullinder | Feb 24, 2024 | "Spinning" the truth, Boreal Forest, Forestry, Hypocrisy, Nature Canada
Nature Canada, an Ottawa-based charity that’s been around since 1939, recently added its name to an alliance of environmental groups lambasting the federal and provincial governments on forestry issues, claiming they were complicit with the forest industry in...
by John Mullinder | Apr 30, 2022 | alternative fibre, Canada, Forestry, wheat straw
Canadian environmental group Canopy’s favourite “tree-free” pulp mill is now in receivership. Styled and promoted globally by Canopy and others as North America’s first so-called “tree-free” pulp mill, Columbia Pulp was ordered this week to hand over its assets to a...
by John Mullinder | Mar 28, 2022 | Ancient forests, Forestry, Greenwashing, Little green lies, Sloppy Journalism
Let me be very clear. I fully support the cause of conserving and protecting the world’s remaining primary forests, and like most people feel enormous empathy for a tree that has survived far longer than we humans could ever hope to live, a tree that was around when...
by John Mullinder | Feb 24, 2022 | alternative fibre, Canada, Forestry, tree-free, wheat straw
A Canadian environmental group’s favourite mill has just been idled. Styled and promoted as North America’s first so-called “tree-free” pulp mill, Columbia Pulp in Starbuck, Washington, was idled on February 18 for lack of demand for its product. I am not the only...
by John Mullinder | Sep 23, 2021 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
Initially, it was years of frustration running into people who knew little about forestry and paper production but plenty about killing and saving trees and deforestation. But it’s much bigger than that. There’s so much misinformation out there, especially in social...
by John Mullinder | May 14, 2021 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
An American environmental group is lashing out at Canadian logging companies and their customers for not supporting its preferred certifier of sustainable forest management, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)...
